Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1928, Page 23

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C. SEPTEMBER 2, 1928—PART 2. BY MARY MARSHALL. GCJ T, ou want to know a man. | travel with him,” runs the old | proverb. One may truthfully add. “If you want to judge & woman's | #ense of dress, see how she looks when she travels.” i It is not enough merely to see her off in her new, freshly pressed sui or coat, with a hat that has not had | time to collect the dust. gloves just ! taken from thoir tissue paper cover- ing and shoes that have been put on the first time that morning. See her when she reaches her destination— and then if you find her looking as smart and fresh and well groomed as you hoped she would—then “you lay to it" that she’s really a well sed woman Nowhere in the world can you find | travel sc Ameri- | B nerally | have improved e y n the past few decades. For one thing, American women have come to realize the importance of good luggage. It was the men in most fami- lies who blazed the trail in this respect and it has been my own experience that until fairly recently the men have been more willing to pay good prices | for their bacs and boxes than have their wives and sisters. Women used to consider their luggage as they did ! mbrellas—as having nothing to do with themselves per- | v were mere packing cases much matter what they as they would hold ansit. Now few wo- g to sot out with cheap ing-covered suit cases and imita- | leather bags unless they cannotet possibly aftord anything better. They rec.ize that, fairly or otherwise, a wo man who travels is usually judged by | the sort of baggage the porter carries | after her. And they take a keen per- | sonal satisfaction in having it of the best that they can afford. There should be something rather nonchalant in the appearance of the clothes ‘that are chosen for travel, be- cause the attitude that one finds agree- sble in a traveler is Preclnly—-nonchn— lance, which my dictionary tells me means “a state of mind indicating jaunty indifference or unconcern.” No matter how well suited your things really are to the vicissitudes of travel, they must not lack that air of jaunty | unconcern—which is precisely what the clothes of the globe-trotting English ‘woman—in her serviceable tweeds, flat- heeled oxfords and shapeless feit hats | —always lacked. Of courss there are fewer of these dowdy English travelers than there were a few years ago, but | they have made an impression on con- tinental observers that will not soon be forgotten. So unless you are expecting to en- counter a succession of brigands or hur- ricanes or landslides or something of that sort, there is no reason why your | travel clothes should be chosen with & | grim di rd of ornamental detail. It | is quite possible to choose out of your | regular wardrobe—if it is fairly well | arllnnedfln ensemble that will be en- | ley suitable for all sorts of travel. Even for cold weather travel it i wiser to choose a cloth coat than one of fur. As every one knows, fine fur is| not much improved by the dampness encountered in travel by water, and the dust incidental to travel by land cer- tainly does not brush out of a fur coat 80 feadily as from one of woven mate- rial. The shops and tailors are at pres- | ent offering & type of coat known as the sports-travel coat, made usually without fur, but as warm as you please. Made of camel’s hair or one of the smart new woolen mixtures, thess coats are not bulky and do not easily wrinkle. With a coat of this sort you may wear a fox fur scarf if you like, which may be protected dampness or dust much more easily than a fur coat. | ‘The thoughtful porter will provide you ! Your Baby Tolie Chorim bt HERE ARE SMART TRAVELING THINGS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY—FOR THE CHILDREN WHEN THEY GO AWAY TO SCHOOL OR COLLEGE, FOR THE ADULTS WHEN THEY MAKE AUTUMN WEEK END OR OVERNIGHT VISITS. THE WOMAN OF THE FAMILY CARRIES A SMART OVERNIGHT BAG OF AUSTRALIAN OSTRICH, WITH AN INTERESTING SIDE FLAP OPENING. HER COAT CUFFS, AND HER HAT IS ONE OF THE NEW OFF.THE-FOREHEAD BERETS OF EROWN VELVET. THE DAUGHTER CARRIES A BAG IN TWO TONES OF BROWN LEATHER, DONE IN A MODERNISTIC DESIGN. SHE WEARS A TWEED COAT DRESS IN TA* SHADES, WITH WHITE VESTEE AND CUFFS SHOWING AT NEC BERS OF THE FAMILY, SMARTLY DRESSED, CARRY PRACTICAL CASES OF PLAID FABRIC AND SHINY BLACK LEATHER. w..h a large paper bag for this purpose w*en you have a long railroad journey | ahead "of you. More and more women are choosing the smarter sort of sports attire for their travels and for Autumn wear frocks of light-weight jersey or other knitted materials ve an over preferred to one of plush or velvet. (Copyright. 1928) and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Dr. Carroll faced the group of young mothers before her rather diffidently. It was difficult to decide what to tell | them and what to omit on the subject of acidified milk feedings. Just how much did they know about any kind of feedings, she wondered “Perhaps, first of all, you'll be inter- ested in knowing why we give small | babies 8 milk that seems so unnatural as sour milk?” she questioned, and as more of this kind of milk than of sweet milk. Also, because it does not need 's s i child is underweight and has a small capacity his food can be almost all nutrition and yet be given in smaller quantities.” “Do you have to add sugar, even though it is net diluted with water?” said another mother. “You may wuse exactly the same amount of sugar as for sweet milk formulas —one ounce for every 10 | ant sort, and for this reason we should Mottoes in Modern Decoration - BY BETSY CALLISTER. FRIEND of mine propounded the theory the other day that every one has a working motto. whether he or she realizes it t. ith pleasant, agree- pleasant and agreeable; with disagree- able, trouble-making people these sub- conseious mottoes are not so pleasant. Thus you might say that one n would have without realizing the motto, “Think no evil,” while another “Where there’s smoke there's fire.” One successful house- wife might have as a motto, “A stitch in time saves nine,” while another might have, from all appearances, “Never do today what you can leave till tomorrow.” And another woman who works her children and servants to death might have “Many hands make light work—providing they aren’t my hands.” But since there are many more pleasant people in the world than un- pleasant ones, 5o it follows that the majority of these subconscious mot- toes are of the agreeable sort. It is possible, too, to superimpose a pleasant, helpful motto upon one of less pleas- Pl il )F BEIGE CLOTH, WITH FOX, AND WRISTS, AND A TAN FELT HAT OF THE ELEPHANT-EAR VARIETY. THE YOUNGER MEM- If you want to make money with- out neglecting your work at home you may possibly find that you can do this making uniforms. One woman who now owns and manages a large business in uniforms began working in spare lime, sandwiched in between household tasks. Another woman who | has been devoting spare time to this work for two years makes enough to buy the clothes for herself and two | daughters, with a little spending money besides. |, The work requires firsi-rate abil- | ity at plain machine sewing. But it | does not call for originality nor a knowledge of fashionable dressmaking. To begin with you will need only enough money to buy material for two or three uniforms and .n up-to-date, attractive nurse’s uniform pattern. I would suggest looking at the new uni- forms in the shops for ideas. I would also sugut making one of the uni- forms m good quality white crepe de chine, because quite recently these silk uniforms have come into favor with many nurses. If you make the uniforms in your own size you may use them later for house dresses and so your outlay will not have been wasted. Make them with the greatest Hats Give Glimpses of Foreheads Most. of the new hats may be spoken of as either down-at-the-back or down- he-side. Very few of them are made with the down-at-the-front silhouette, for Paris milliners have finally come to the conclusion that at least a bit of the feminine forehead may be shown. Interestingly enough, it was the American girl who started this revela- tion of the forehead and last Summer and the Summer before American girls in Paris amazed Parisians by wearing their hats pulied back to show some slight expanse of serens brow. Then it seemed merely & fad—one of the rather crude ways that Amer- ican girls had of showing their inde- pendence. Still the French milliners were not precisely pleased with the way it was done—so they set to work to make an off-the-forehead hat. And now at any of the up-to-the-minute d them— them—that permit the forehead to be seel n. Agnes has originated the so-called poke bonnet cabriolet, quite long at the back and at both sides and Mift- ing its brim upward at the front. Re- boux has a new turban with the sug- gestion of elephant's ears at the sides and a front line rising well off the - forehead at the left side. Talbot has a new model with the ! brim turned back and upward at the front, giving an expression to the face that is either very demure—almost ma- donna-esque—or_one that is sophisticated. . It all depends on who* wears the hat. From Talbot also comes a new close-fitting hat with a large flat velvet bow at the back covering the nape of the neck. X ‘The French milliners never seem to weary of the beret type of hat. And * with the adaptability characteristic of the French modiste they have this sea- son modified the beret to suit the pres- ° ent demands of fashion. 4 Le Monnier’s new beret is made with ° a closely fitting felt head band that rises somewhat at the front to give a glimpse of forehead above the eye- brows and curves down over the ears the Dape of the neck. very mach M nape of very muc! e a bonnet. Above this f:f:,he‘d band is the velvet, arranged beret fashion, and pulled down somewhat over the right side. Maria and Andree have sponsored another beret or tam of somewhat peas- ant aspect made entirely of brushed plush. Here the head band is straight and wide, worn drawn down over the right eyebrow, with the tam top also pulled down at the right, covering the band entirely at that side. Dickens Still a Favorite. A world-wide canvass conducted by a British publishing house to ascertain “your favorite author” resulted in an overwheliming vote for Charles Dickens. Then followed Scott, Stevenson, Dumas and Thackeray. WOMEN WHO MAKE UNIFORMS FIND PROFITS IN ENTERPRISEI dressmaking. A group of }ook n;uch better in ni orms than in uniforms all cut precise- | ly alike. Graduate nurses I have usually very fussy about the fit uniforms and are usually glad some one who will take the t: make them exactly as desired. leave word that you will be glad to at- {tend to any orders in the future. a single order ought to give you en- couragement. You may be able to get catalogues and price lsts from established uni- form makers. These should help you in going on your venture. Most of | these nurse’s uniform makers also make servants' uniforms and this is a ignod side line for you. Women who keep even one maid nowadays are more interested in the question of proper uniforms than they used to be. Make | a sample maid’s uniform in one of the | soft-toned chambrays and go armed | with small samples in which the ma- | terial may be bought. You may be | able to get orders to start with from j-among the better-to-do of your own mb}e precision—so that they will | acouaintances. their fa relaxed into pleased smiles | pounds of the baby’s weight—or you | welcome the present-day revival of every bit as good as those sold in You may be able to got orders from she knew that she had struck a univer- sal mental question. | “Digestion,” she began slow “does may use slightly more without causing much disturbance.” “Why do you call this method of wsitten mottoes more or less promi- nently displayed. These motioes are no longer naively gY TIS ///‘/ iz [} | the stores. hotels and tea rooms, because now- Armed with these uniforms I would adays attractive uniforms for wait- displayed in rustic wooden frames on the parlor wall. They are ingenjously used as part of the design of lamp- shades, carved in the oak walnscoat- n f 5 i your home. If you can get a personal | able to find & market for ready-made __j - introduction to them so much the bet- | uniforms in the department stores— ter. HW L J i ;“‘ “‘ “ml p - Al suggest going to see the head nurses | resses are considered most important AL i S | at the hospitals within easy reach of | In the course of time you may b: ™ \ Through the head nurse you may | but to begin with it is better to special- ere is a certain de- ! stomach. That for mothers 1o uy to nildren’s stomachs This merely & s o retard digestion | untl the stomach contents are again | acid. When we feed an infant sweet | milkk the stomach must secrete much | more hydrochloric acid in order to| bring the cow's milk o a point at which dige 0 begins than when we feed breast milk. The reason for this | & chemical one, and 1t isn't neces- sary for you to understand it if you Il just accept the fact that by adding id to cow’s milk we make it that much easier for the milk to be di- gested. We are simply furnishing the tomach with extra acid” A hand flew up. “Can §! of acid or just lactic acid?” ‘There are several acids which have been used for this purpose, all of them natural acids—hydrochloric (the kind found in the stomach), eitric (lemon juice), acetic (vinegar), Many of you, no doubt, know mothers who are using lemon juice mixed with their bables’ milk. This s an excellent acid to use though lactic acid is perhaps the most | popular one.” Please, doctor, why can't we use sour milk without having to sour it arti. be any kind at's & fair question” sald Dr. | Carroll But if we walted until milk sured by iisell many other organisms it besides the organisms which pro- sce the lactie acid would grow, ton, t ¢ distinetly harmful nd botl it 1 rmful organisms are edding iactic acid (or the Bulgarian baciilus or acidophilous cultures), then we have a milk that has in it none of these harmful organisms’ “Is there any reason for using lactic- et Yes, It s possible to give a child ¥ - ! besleging Dr killed, and then sour it artificially by | feeding problems | dium # |and & half pounds of gasoline five acid milk other than its ease of diges- | feeding foolproof, doctor?” asked one woman, remembering the subject of ihe lecture “Because one can make more mis- takes with a food of this type and still not suffer any serfous consequences. | If a mother once knows how to pre- | pare the milk, the method of prepara- tion never changes. All she has to do lsdflve the child more of it as it grows | handling. older. The child’s appetite looks out | for that in many cases.” “Can one give 8 from birth?” “If 1t is necessary, though one always hopes a mother will be able to nurse the baby at least six weeks. But | this 1s a very satisfactory food through- out the first year. The mother must add orange juice and cereal, cod liver oll and vegetables to the diet, though, Just as she would if the baby took other feedings “Can we use sweet milk for the cereal?” “Use diluted milk over the cereal, yes, and don’t worry, as many mothers do, that giving orange juice will be to much acid for the baby. The acid of orange juice is neutralized in diges- tion and, though it might be be unwise to overdo this, the baby needs the orange julce for its vitamin elements and must have it “I'm going o try it on Tommy," said Mrs. Linton, “and see if 1 can’t get a iittle weight on him."” But her neighbor was not listening Bhe had hastened toward the lecture platform, where half the sudience was Carroll with individual Accelorometer tests show that & me- d sutomobile requires only one lmrufnwr to run 25 miles per hour, yet it now consumey seven and one- half pounds. | have been employed | mottoes sufficiently original to be dif- | isn't room to include them here. | right in her own kitchen by not keep- | too large | food waste it 15 an excellent plan to find lout just what sort of spoilage takes ing of the library, written in dashing script in paint across the top of a dressing room mirror, expressed in Prench on an ash tray, painted on the kitchen wall, incorporated in book plates—and so0 used in a dozen other unexpected places, ready to give us their more or less sophisticated mes- sage. The sketches show some of the ways in_ which these up-to-date mottoes | 'An important thing is to have your | ferent from those you are likely to find elsewhere. If you are thinking of making use of mottoes in any of these up-to-date ways and would like to have help in finding just the motto you need, please send me a stamped, self-addressed en- velope and I will send you a list to se- lect from. We have collected such a number of these mottoes that there (Copyright, 1928.) Food Waste. Wasters of food may be thought of as all belonging to one of four different | groups Poor choice to begin with Poor preparation for the table Poor serving Actual spollage careless through I think that every housewife has what might be called s favorite way of wasting food. Thus one housewife who is careful never to buy a bit of fruit or a vegetable that is not per- fectly fresh, lets ever so much food spoll ing it on lce. That is waste number four. Another housewife who insie on getting good food and who keep carefully, frequently burns and scorch it, and thinks very little of throwing out a pudding or a cake because it wWas not made right. Much waste is due to carelessness in shopping. In an effort to economize women buy cheap vegetables or frult— only to find them stale or partly rotten. They buy cheap cuts of meat that not infrequently prove unpalatable. Some women actually grow accustomed 10 finding food unfit for use after they have hought it. Bome women's favorite way of wast ing food is In the serving. Portions are Food 15 presented which does | not. suit Individual taste. Meals are 5o | In trying to check up on your own | place, It may be that you need & new refrigerator, or again it may be that you need & more honest provision dealer, m your meals are not properly and maybe the only trouble is that your meals W not properly P Tilrv e L;(\MSur(zLd__..., M‘Wined-'i;:m;l Fabrics With Tinted Pearls. No matter how dry you are you may still adopt a rather wet color scheme for your Autumn wardrobe, For mel- low old Burgundy has provided dress- makers and fabric dyers with one of as if the oysters in which they grew had been fed Burgundy with their salt water diet! ‘The fact 15 that tinted Is have come back into fashion. Six months ago I think most of us felt that the their most important inspirations for | natural color or the shade of gray that Autumn fied velvet or And let's hope that by just letting our eyes feast upon the rich, planned that certain dishes come away (liquid tones of this color we will be | from the table untouched | | were are street tumes of Burgundy v and close-ftting hatters' et or broadeloth Iittle hats of Burgundy rr,;rmlucod the tone of the real pearls ealled black, was somewhat smarter than the colored sort, but there are new tinted pearls that are too lovely to resist. If you choose dn Autumn ensemble of one of the rich wine shades then you have your Burgundy tinted pearls, if Gloves and stockings chosen to go With | you choose one of the new brown tones these costumes are like deep sunburned flesh suffused with lnvalr shade for Autumn, lers are showing imitation choke: Jewel there are pearls of a delicate Chanel brown. Thlp!: art o 3 e especlally the girl whose skin retains m' sunburned tones from her Summer collars made of large pearis that look bolidays THE TOP OF THE 1'RROR 1S A ¥ WHICH, TRANSLATED, READS: “BEAUTY PASSES—-GOODNESS REMAID AND THE VAL 5 OF TE BED BEARS THE APOSTOLIC BENISON REPEATED BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP BY MANY (8 ATIONS, New Tweeds Have Soft, New Beauty Do you realize just how good looking | the new tweed Is? Many of us have memories of tweeds | in days gone by as fabrics all very well | e | for cold-weather wear if you wanted'and pantry and dining room, 'mh::. | something durable and substantial. But | nowadays, when we play golf in crepe de chine and wear taffeta for bathing | sults, we have an aversion to heavy and_serviceable fabrics. Most of us would rather take our chances with the frailer fabrics. T But the new tweed is ideal. It is serviceable, because it 1s tweed, but it is sott and piiable and can be made—has been made—into frocks and coats and sults of the utmost charm, Another thing about it, it is made in beautiful colors. Grays that are slightly softened with brown, browns that are cooled a little with gray, blues that suggest green, and greens that have an overtone of blue. So between the two characteristics— lovely colors and soft, flexible texture— the new tweed is quite desirable, Very often the tweed coat is bound or bordered with a darl Brown on one of conts, dark green on one of the green blue coats. Rubber Soap Dish Will Not Go Under Have you seen—or heard about-— rubber soap dishes? I saw one the other day in the bath- room of a friend of mine where her children take their daily tubbing, It was made of rubber in the shape of a fish, with a hole In its back big enough to hold a cake of soap. And others, bber in the shape of an dish, are ‘&. useful. ‘You -r\i-— soap float, so child can have the soap side in the tub, and yet Wak, be able to get permission to see the other nurses. You will perhaps be told that the gl{o&m for the p‘\'IPfl nurses ue' i made. Your selling poin uu&ut uniforms made to order look better because they can be adjusted here and there to sult the individual. This can, of course, be done by lengthening or shortening the pattern | at_various places and this can do castly if you have a know] of plain an old-fashioned admonition of house- wives years before people began talking about labor-saving devices or household efficiency. Yet carpet sweepers, vacuum cleaners, patent mops and other labor- saving devices are examples of concen- trated “head work" done once and for all on the part of the inventors for the purpose of saving endless heel work on | the part of the housewife. And kitchens | planned and made to save steps are 1 another example of the use of head work { in place of heel work. Still, with the best planned kitchen most up-to-date shelves and closets all sorts of electrical devices, there are housewives who still do quantities .of seem to prefer to “save their heads.” are Some women who intel- lectual and who are capabl w m;‘umm of prej things many in terms of necessary steps. If not do this “in your head,” minutes getting your meal plan eovn on paper. 'g'ehc list of the foods to be prepared will suggest the varlous foods that must i be taken from the refrigerator, store closet or pantry shelves. No use mak-| ing more one trip to any of these | m‘uu It your cooking utensils do not | ng right beside r work table or | stove, you ulate & st of | tools and need to be used. it serv- | and | room. You 'elufi 'tla o place itohen and on the { for the woman of | and coursge it offers really large poss: ! bilities. needless heel work—all because they| habit ize on individual work, stressing the advantage of the uniform that is made to_measure. The advantage of this work, for the woman at home, is that the equipment necessary—sewing machine and sew- ing tools—is already at hand and that * the necessary samples cost very littl: and may be made use of at home. Bu iness sens | SAVE HEELS PREPARING MEALS |~ “Let your head save your heels,” was other the things needed in the dinin; room. Plan so that you can do some of your™ preparation while you are waiting for things to cook on the stove, The work thoughtful cook or housewife is lke & piece of cabinetwork, with precise dovetailing of all the parts. Empty-handed trips into the dining room, first for a teaspoon, then for an empty sugar bowl, followed by empty- handed trips from dining room inte kitchen or pantry, first for a salt cellar then for a vinegar cruet, show a lack of head work. Some housewives who don't make th * fine adjustment of their work so as (o save steps explain that they don’t have a time to figure things out in that way And perhaps if you have not got into of doing that way it will take a little extra to start.with. My advice is to take a day when you have a little extra time, and possibly enthusiasm than usual, and then more for | start out making a s ving of this sort. Then, for actual satis- faction of it, count the number of times ivance means the | It means one trip d of two or three. It means often that most of the food preparation may be done at once. Food materials nceded nmL all be assembled on the kitchen table and then, conveniently seated on a chalr or stool, you may do the work in a comparatively short time. Although the number of silkworm eggs taken into Italy this year was lawer than last, plentiful feeding of l':ulhcny leaves has caused the worms produce a greater amount of si than in 1937, 5l